Read more about Ryan on his blog at ryanspoon.com. For startups, it is dangerous to entirely separate product and marketing – both strategically and organizationally. A great product isn’t overly useful without an audience.
Trends. IMG Tag and Image SEO. Almost all SEO professionals admit that the IMG element is important for search engines, at least to a certain degree.

Mobile Social Networking Grows. Mobile Games Also Grow about 10% Playing games comprised 26.2% of the mobile audience in April, also up roughly 10% from 23.7% in January.

In addition, 68.8% of US mobile subscribers used text messaging on their mobile device, similar to 68.1% who did so in January. Browsers were used by 39.1% of subscribers (up 6% from 37%), while downloaded applications were used by 37.8% (up 7% from 35.4%). Listening to music represented 18% of subscribers, up 9%. Apple Increases Platform Use 18%
Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Simple Accountability. Positive Change.
Smallbiztechnology.com: Tech Insight and News for Small Businesses. The History of Digital Storage [INFOGRAPHIC]
The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that's only 50 years of progress.

Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we've come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible. Infographic research and design by Mike Vasilev.
JobConvo - online video job interview. The Great Tech War Of 2012. Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik - Web Analytics Blog. All About Anchor Text - Whiteboard Friday. Welcome to our first Whiteboard Friday of the new year.

It's 2012 and we're going to kick it off by examining the intricacies that revolve around anchor text. Although, this may seem like a very basic topic, we are going to cover some lesser known aspects of anchor text that is sure to satisfy even our more advanced SEOs. Enjoy and don't forget to leave your comments below!

We recommend MediaTemple for web hosting. Use Code MTLOVESDESIGN for 20% off There is a part 2 to this post which is called 27 More Outstanding Resume Designs Part II.
Data Visualization and Design. If you’ve been keeping up with the trends then you’ve probably moved on from Vaporwave and have started listening to Beach Goth by this point. If not you’re probably very confused, maybe even angry that people are coining such ridiculous names and you’ve only just now started listening to Witch House (c’mon it’s 2014 get with the times). With people exclaiming “Punk is dead!” While being nostalgic for the “real hip-hop” they weren’t even around for, it’s easy to see why someone would get the impression that this is all very silly and pointless.

A pair of hobbyist hackers claim to have taken Siri, the iPhone 4S feature that obeys voice commands, and turned it into an app that obeys brainwave patterns. "It works! It really works!
13 Tech Tools for a Paper-Free Life. Ari Meisel is co-founder at Less Doing, where he works on making every task in life and business more efficient.

He used self-tracking to overcome Crohn's Disease and compete in Ironman France. You can follow him on Twitter @liontex and read his blog at arimeisel.com. I was recently working on a real estate development project, and the mountain of paperwork that was produced and wasted was heartbreaking. Every time the plans changed, an oversized set of prints was made — a copy for the owner, the builder, the engineer, and one for the town building department.
Think You're Anonymous? Google Analytics May Prove Different. It's no exaggeration to say that, sometimes, anonymity is a matter of life and death. Which is why it's important to know just how trivial it is to track down an "anonymous" blogger using their Google Analytics code.

Andy Baio, who runs the popular linkblog Waxy.org posted Wednesday about using simple tools like eWhois and Statsie to unmask several bloggers. Baio says that tracking down a blogger by GA is less likely than by IP address or another slip-up, but "it's also more accurate. Hundreds or thousands of people can share an IP address on a single server and domain information can be faked, but a shared Google Analytics is solid evidence that both sites are run by the same person.